PBDB Collection

USGS Loc. 26403, Graham Brick Co. pits (=Graham Brick Yards, Maple Shade): Early Campanian, New Jersey

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae

	Cliona cretacica	Gallagher 1984
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae

	Astrangia cretacea (Bölsche 1870)	Gallagher 1984
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha

	Hamulus falcatus	Gallagher 1984

	Hamulus sp.	Kuehne 1999

	Hamulus squamosus Gabb 1859	Gallagher 1984

	Longitubus lineatus	Gallagher 1984

	Diploconcha cretacea	Gallagher 1984
unclassified

	Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831	Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Turritellidae

	Turritella merchantvillensis	Gallagher 1984

	Turritella encrinoidea	Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae

	Cerithium pilsbryi	Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

	Volutoderma biplicata	Gallagher 1984

	Volutomorpha conradi	Gallagher 1984

	? Volutomorpha sp. Gabb 1877	Kuehne 1999
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae

	Turbinella intermedia	Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae

	Xenophora leprosa (Morton 1834)	Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae

	Arrhoges lobata (Wade 1926)	Kuehne 1999

	Anchura rostrata	Gallagher 1984

	Anchura sp. Conrad 1860	Kuehne 1999
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Lunatia halli Gabb 1860	Gallagher 1984

	Gyrodes petrosus (Morton 1834)	Gallagher 1984

	Gyrodes supraplicatus (Conrad 1858)	Kuehne 1999
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae

	Dentalium subarcuatum	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae

	Inoceramus proximus	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae

	Pecten (Neithea) quinquecostata Sowerby 1814	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Camptonectes bellisculptus	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae

	Anomia argentaria Morton 1833	Gallagher 1984

	Paranomia scabra (Morton 1834)	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae

	Gervillia ensiformis Conrad 1858	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae

	? Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777	Kuehne 1999

	Pteria petrosa	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae

	Pinna loqueata	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

	Exogyra sp. Say 1820	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

	Ostrea cf. mesenterica Morton 1834	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae

	Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869	Kuehne 1999

	Nemodon eufaulensis (Gabb 1860)	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae

	Cucullaea antroea	Gallagher 1984

	Cucullaea neglecta	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

	Striarca sp. Conrad 1862	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae

	Glycymeris mortoni	Gallagher 1984

	Trigonarca cuneiformis	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae

	Trigonia mortoni	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae

	Pterotrigonia eufaulensis (Gabb 1860)	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

	Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae

	Panopea decisa	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae

	Veniella conradi (Morton 1833)	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

	Legumen concentricum	Kuehne 1999

	Cyprimeria sp. Conrad 1864	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

	Linearia metastriata	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

	Cardium tenuistriatum (Whitfield 1885)	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae

	Liopistha protexta Conrad 1853	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae

	Anatimya anteradiata (Conrad 1860)	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Clavagellidae

	Clavagella armata Morton 1833	Kuehne 1999
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae

	Pholadomya occidentalis Morton	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

	Nucula slackiana	Kuehne 1999
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Diplomoceratidae

	Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Baculitidae

	Baculites haresi (Reeside 1927)

	Baculites ovatus (Say 1820)	Gallagher 1984
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Scaphitidae

	Scaphites (Scaphites) hippocrepis (DeKay 1828)

	Scaphites hippocrepis (DeKay 1828)	Gallagher 1984
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Collignoniceratidae

	Menabites (Delawarella) vanuxemi (Morton 1830)
	(2 measurements)

	Menabites (Delawarella) delawarensis (Morton 1830)

	Menabites delawarensis (Morton 1830)	Gallagher 1984
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Placenticeratidae

	Placenticeras placenta (DeKay 1828)	Gallagher 1984
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae

	Hoploparia gabbi Pilsbry 1901	Gallagher 1984

	Hoploparia gladiator Pilsbry 1901	Gallagher 1984

	cf. Oncopareia sp. Bosquet 1854	Robb 2004	1 specimen
	with ANSP 21535
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callianassidae

	Callianassa mortoni Pilsbry 1901	Gallagher 1984
unclassified

	Lamnoidea indet.	Gallagher 1984
Reptilia

	Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768	Robb 2004	6 specimens
	ANSP 21538; NJSM 20658, 20659
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869	Gallagher 1984
Reptilia

	Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)	Gallagher 1984	2 specimens
	ANSP 10217, 21537
Reptilia - Mosasauridae

	Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822	Gallagher 1984	2 specimens
	ANSP 15191; NJSM 20657

	? Clidastes sp. Cope 1868	Gallagher 1984	1 specimen
	ANSP 21539
	= Clidastes sp. Cope 1868	Gallagher 1993
	ANSP 19642
	= Clidastes cf. iguanavus Cope 1868	Robb 2004
Reptilia - Testudines

	Chedighaii barberi (Schmidt 1940)	Gaffney et al. 2006	1 specimen
	ANSP 15902, shell
	= Bothremydina indet. Gaffney et al. 2006	Gaffney et al. 2009
	Table 3

	Bothremys cooki (Leidy 1865)	Gallagher 1984	1 specimen
	ANSP 15302
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

	Pycnodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1833)	Robb 2004	1 specimen
	ANSP 21370

	Anomoeodus phaseolus (Hay 1899)	Robb 2004	2 specimens
	ASNP 21531; NJSM 20654
Actinopteri

	Teleostei indet. Müller 1846	Robb 2004	6 specimens
	ANSP 2156; NJSM 15478, 20656
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae

	Enchodus gladiolus Cope 1872	Robb 2004	12 specimens
	ANSP 21532-21535; NJSM 20655
Chondrichthyes

	Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880	Robb 2004	5 specimens
	ANSP 19511, 21529
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae

	Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856	Gallagher 1984	3 specimens
	ASNP 21527, 21528; NJSM 20653
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae

	Odontaspis aculeatus (Cappetta and Case 1975)	Robb 2004	1 specimen
	NJSM 20649
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae

	Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz 1835)	Robb 2004	1 specimen
	ANSP 21522
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae

	Squalicorax kaupi (Agassiz 1843)	Robb 2004	12 specimens
	ASNP 21524-21526; NJSM 9043, 20652
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae

	Scapanorhynchus texanus (Roemer 1852)	Gallagher 1984	16 specimens
	ASNP 15147, 15148, 15429, 21518, 21519, 21521, 21523; NJSM 20650
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae

	cf. Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz 1838)	Robb 2004	1 specimen
	NJSM 20651
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae

	Odontaspis cf. samhammeri Cappetta and Case 1975	Robb 2004	2 specimens
	ASNP 21517
Chondrichthyes

	Batoidea indet. ()	Gallagher 1984
unclassified

	Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754	Gallagher 1984
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae

	Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847	Kuehne 1999
unclassified

	Rostellites nasutus	Gallagher 1984

	Rostellites texturatus	Kuehne 1999
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	New Jersey	County:	Burlington
Coordinates:	40.0° North, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	40.5° North, 35.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Early Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Merchantville
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Merchantville Fm, which is overlain by the Englishtown Fm. AGE: Early Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Mostly from lower part of formation, 0.9-1.5 m above base.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	quartzose lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Silty quartz sand. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:	marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	mold/impression
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some macrofossils
Collection methods:	surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	ANSP,USNM
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.

Metadata

Database number:	88610
Authorizer:	A. Hendy, M. Carrano, M. Uhen, R. Benson	Enterer:	A. Hendy, M. Carrano, M. Uhen, R. Benson
Modifier:	R. Benson	Research group:	marine invertebrate
Created:	2009-04-16 13:24:59	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2009-04-16 13:24:59
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

29725.

W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1993. Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. Journal of Paleontology 67(5):828-849 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

41941		E. S. Gaffney, G. E. Hooks III, and V. P. Schneider. 2009. New material of North American side-necked turtles (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae). American Museum Novitates 3655:1-26 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
27976		E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
39861		W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]
54671		W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61261		D. F. Kuehne. 1999. Upper Cretaceous macroinvertebrate faunas of the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Mosasaur 6:29-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61315		A. J. Robb. 2004. Vertebrate fossils from the Upper Cretaceous (Merchantville Formation: Early Campanian) Graham Brick Yards locality of New Jersey. The Mosasaur 7:75-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]